The Spectator newsletter reports:
Today, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will visit Donald Trump at the White House. Merz has struck a more pro-Trump tone than other European nations about the conflict, saying ‘now is not the time’ to ‘lecture’ the US and Israel about international law. He said that ‘appeals from Europe… have achieved little over the years and decades’. Is this all a ploy to bring Germany closer into the US’s orbit or the first sign of a European change in strategy?
After everyone - the USA, the EU, the UK etc. - has been going around lecturing the world on the 'rules-based order', which doesn't exist, now the Mekon is telling people not to lecture the USA for starting a war.
If anything, in the face of growing civilian casualties in Iran and elsewhere as a result of the USA's unilateral action, this is precisely the time to be lecturing people about international law.
Is there any limit to the nonsense these EU leaders can come out with?